We want to be bold, we want to be brave and we want to throw our own hats into the ring with a few ideas of our own, that will see the gaming industry undergo some radical change this year. Are we even remotely psychic? Not a chance, but we’re feeling pretty confident that none of these predictions will come back to bite us in the ass. None of them.

I am not enamoured with the DualShock 4. It’s a decent enough controller, and it’s far better than the controller included with the PlayStation 3, but it could still use some tweaking. One of the most innovative, but severely underused aspects of the current PlayStation controller though is the front touchpad. In the early days of the system, it was …

What does the next generation hold in store for gamers? If current trends are to be believed, it’s a future where streaming games plays a large role. Microsoft and Sony are looking to move away from traditional physical media for games, instead offering their best titles as cloud-based products. That’s an idea which can’t be supported without some of the biggest players in the game joining in on that act, and it sounds like EA is keen to head to the cloud as well with whatever console hardware is on the way.

Starfield! Bethesda’s first new game in 25 years! Seriously, that’s all that I know about the game, but I need to pad this article out a bit further so uh…uhhhh…it rhymes with Garfield? One other bit of concrete information that is known about Bethesda’s next big project, is that it’s going to be a long long time before we see …

A new PlayStation coming later this year? Don't bet on it.

Where’s the PlayStation 5, or are we in for another repeat of the PlayStation 3 era that lasted a good couple of years longer than the regular hardware refresh cycle? Maybe not, because it sounds like the PlayStation 5 rumours are going to start picking up steam soon. That’s according to the sometimes accurate, sometimes not scoops of industry insider Marcus Sellers, who claims that developers are currently playing around with dev kits of the PlayStation 5 console.

Microsoft may have originally wanted this generation to be the start of an all-digital future, but when the Xbox was announced, it may have been a little too soon. With the introduction and revision to Game Pass, we’re looking at the potential beginning of console ecosystems that do away with discs entirely. It’s very possible that the next consoles ditch …

Ubisoft predicts that the introduction of the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X has made true next-generation consoles wait, and they don't see them coming out in the next two years.